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How to Improve Interaction in Online Meetings

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Are you fed up with Death by PowerPoint online meetings? Are you frustrated by rampant multi-tasking, rather than great participation in your meeting? In your online meetings, have you found that participation, interaction, and collaboration have ground to a screeching halt? Such is the culture of virtual meetings all over […]

Seven Methods for Group Communications

Friday, August 1st, 2008

In the beginning, the most popular way for groups to communicate was simply "in person." But with the advent of technology, even as early as two millennia ago, man has devised new ways for groups to communicate without actually being together in the same room.

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Online Collaboration Technologies–New Tools and Web Services

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Tokbox: Web-based application lets you have video conferences with your friends
SeeToo: Select a video on your PC, and watch it simultaneously with your friends
SnapYap: One-to-one free video conferencing room allows you to have free video-audio calls with your friends
TeamViewer: Free downloadable application allows you to share your screen and control anyone else’s PC
FlickIM: Web-based instant […]

Second Life Enables Cutting-Edge Business

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

When Greg Verdino of Melville, N.Y., gets up to go to work, he no longer makes a dash for the Long Island Rail Road to commute to Manhattan. No, as chief strategy officer of a new marketing company called crayon, on many days he sits down at his home computer and logs into a […]

Collaborate on Web Searches Live with Microsoft SearchTogether

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

What is SearchTogether?
Microsoft SearchTogether is a free Internet Explorer plug-in that allows groups of people to collaborate on web searches.
Who can benefit from using SearchTogether?
SearchTogether can benefit any group of people who are interested in investigating a topic together, such as students working on a group report, colleagues working on a joint project, or friends […]

Wikis: Inciting Collaboration

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Think of a wiki as a natural extension to the blogging concept, a classification-centric medium which allows for a freedom of content manipulation across a community of users that can’t be found in any other comparable technology. By engendering enthusiasm and commitment from every user, the wiki can become the perfect tool for the […]

Un-Managing–Releasing the Creative Beast in Your Team

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

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This graphically interesting presentation gives guidelines and suggestions for successfully managing a team. It includes conditions for creativity, innovation killers, and the myths of motivation.

Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 79

Monday, July 14th, 2008

ADrive: File hosting service gives you 50 GB for your files, and lets you share them with anyone
SnapYap: One-to-one free video conferencing room allows you to have free video-audio calls with your friends
MyMapChat: Google-maps based web-site lets you chat with people and groups on a world map
Palringo: Multi-client mobile chat application enables you to chat, […]

Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 83

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Beam It Up: Compress your music, pictures or videos, and share them with a text message
ScreenStream: Free downloadable software allows you to show your screen to other people
Ulteo: Run OpenOffice online, and share your editing sessions in real time with anyone
Centericq: Text mode multi-protocol instant messenger connects you to major IM services through a simple […]

Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies and Web Services

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Here my selected online collaboration tools for this week:
 

Vidivic: Free video conferencing solution enables you to have online meeting with up to 9 people
Mobivox: Set up free or really cheap VoIP group calls with up to 9 people
Call Graph: Record any Skype call in MP3 format […]

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